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You don't really know a song until you play it live.

You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.